« Africa's largest cell operator launches wireless broadband | Main | Yahoo adding VoIP to its instant messaging service »
August 13, 2005
Software piracy on the rise in India
According to a Business Software Alliance and IDC study, software piracy in India in 2004 stood at 73 percent. Compare this with the figure in the 2003 financial year, 64 percent, as against 70 percent during 2002.
Software piracy in India is prevalent both at businesses and consumer levels. Popular software programs such as Macromedia Dreamweaver is almost 85% pirated.
The most common form of piracy where the end-user does not even realise that he is engaging in piracy is when the dealer pre-loads illegal software onto a PC before sale.
Posted by admin at August 13, 2005 08:00 AM